Yes. I understand. I just wanted to know whether IOI did any kind of work for the GOG edition (e.g. remove authentication upon launch) or none at all.

What's next? No more offline installers in a few years?

Really hope that this stays an accident and not something that evolves into something much more worse for this platform regarding the future.

the walls have ears.

don't give them ideas :P

[but yes. i expect that to happen at some point in the future.]

If that happens I'll just start wearing pirates hat. :)

There is zero possible way whatsoever that this was an "accident." All parties knew exactly what they were doing, and the problems with it, long before they actually did it.

I don't think offline installers are going anyway.

Why? I am guessing that the trolls got offended for getting called out or some people did not read the whole post. There are people here that don't actually want the game to be fixed and just want to hate and rage.

End of the day we just want GOG to clean their act up. I guess some just want to see GOG burn.

Posting here to let GOG know I'm done. 800+ games here, and you'll get not another dim from me now. If I'm buying DRM games anyway, I may as well use a superior storefront. DRM-free was the only advantage you had over Steam, and despite your severely lacking forums, website, store, marketing, and staff, I have stayed loyal because of that one thing alone. You've lost. You lost my money, you lost my trust and you lost my custom in the future. I hope all your "new" customers are financially independent and will support you, because while I know I'm not super rich, $200 a month definitely contributed to keeping the lights on at GOG HQ.

I have zero reason to shop here now. Thank you for freeing me from your shitty store, your buggy client, your ancient and out-of-date forum. I'm done with you GOG, and the only reason I'll be back is to rub in your face sales you would have had, "Pretty Woman" style. So thanks for that.

"If you don't give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the greatest failure!" - Jack Ma

I just had an interesting chat with someone who bought the game but doesn't frequent the forum that much, if at all.

He was enjoying the game immensely, completely offline, and didn't understand why all the negative reviews when the game was obviously DRM-free for him.

I explained to him about unlocks, progression, etc. being the core of this sandbox-like game and that he may be missing 90% of the game. He was quite surprised, as he had no idea about there being any unlocks and such (which isn't surprising as there is nothing about it on the GOG game page). He had assumed that all he was missing by playing offline was the usual stuff: leaderboards, daily events, achievements, etc. --- which he didn't care about.

For people whose only source of information is GOG itself, and prefer to play games rather than read reviews and forum posts, this game looks very much as if it's DRM-free.

From what I gathered, he plans to continue playing the game, so I don't expect him to refund the game. I'm sure he's not alone.

Just something to think about.

I had a thought - someone should reach out to Angry Joe. I would, but I don't have any social media accounts to do so.

I'm not the biggest fan of Joe, but he does seem to usually call out corporate bullshit, microtransactions and anti-consumer stuff, and while he was a big fan of the Witcher and CDPR he was very hard on Cyberpunk, broken promises etc. He does a "news" show every week (I think?). I'm sure if someone could be arsed to describe the situation - GOG's original stanceon DRM, the way it creeped in slwoly and now this release and point him to the ongoing shitstorm in this and other threads, they'd talk about. He's got a pretty big channel. Maybe it would force GOG to respond. Even if not, at least it might warn a fair amount of customers, like the person you describe, about what's up.

It's a good idea, just not my cup of tea, but if you want to, he has a "contact us" form:
http://angryjoeshow.com/ajsa/contact/

I'm not so sure as he went political declaring any ips he has little interest in if they sacrifice Quality to be a constant ''Orange man bad'' hate train he is all for it but if they did it with ips he likes and or if its done with who replaced the person that meme phrasing is towards he'd go nuclear .. thus he has double standards

Note wasn't getting political just pionting out Angry Joe I doubt will care about it.. unless he actually cares about G.O.G or Drm Free on any real level given what I stated about him above